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I’m so thrilled that our new Kitchen Garden is taking shape. Believe it or not, a lot of careful planning has gone into this Kitchen Garden. From last January, 2013, when we first moved to Hornsea, we had vast amounts of scrubby undergrowth, out of control hedges strangled with ivy and trees with branches almost […]

I suppose to write the title, “What’s Happening Here in 2014” may confuse you – it confuses me at times. But like a lot of you, we have hopes and dreams. Therefore I’ve decided to write a sort of ‘What we hope to do this year, but if we don’t manage it all, we’ll survive’ […]

There’s been a bit of progress in the Kitchen Garden area of our Hornsea garden. I’ve really missed my fabulous Kitchen Garden in Hessle – with it’s raised beds, greenhouse, fun garden sheds etc – but most of all, after having worked at creating then looking after a great Kitchen Garden for five years, and […]

Well, this is it! Summer! At last it has come to East Yorkshire (and the rest of the UK) with temperatures so warm and humid that make our bones feel very happy. Two weeks of it so far, and enjoying every minute of it. How long it will last, no-one knows. But we are sure […]

This move of ours to Hornsea has turned out to suit us even more than we thought it would. But one thing I can’t get used to is not buying vegetable plants even though we haven’t yet set up our Kitchen Garden. Now we have sussed out where our marvellous trees put the garden in […]

How I miss the brilliant Kitchen Garden I was lucky to have at our old house. Erik and myself have barely been able to contain our frustration whilst waiting to see how much of our extensive garden was going to be put in the shade by our enormous but beautiful trees. Well, this is […]

If you have been following our adventures you will know that we have moved house, leaving an extensive kitchen garden behind, and we are in the process of building a new garden to grow all our favourite fruit and vegetables. This new garden was completely overgrown and has needed a huge amount of hacking and […]

Last weekend the weather was miserable. Cold and intermittent showers. But our friends, Steven and Lynne, drove out to Hornsea complete with all their professional gardening gear and proceeded to chop and trim our hedges which had grown leggy and far too tall. Dead bushes were dealt with, and those still with signs of life […]

Believe it or not, those wierd objects in the picture above (courtesy of www.sowtheseed.rg.uk) are the start of our Kitchen Garden, and, strange but true, like the Ugly Duckling from the Hans Christian Andersen story, these straggly, string-like objects evolve into the most amazing succulent and tasty Asparagus Spears. So on one of the coldest […]

A new house, a new garden (almost virgin territory), a new computer and within a few days, an updated Blog site. Meals to cook, cafes and restaurants to visit, a brand new Kitchen Garden to create from scratch and loads of new Food Adventures to share! After the many months of painting and packing up […]

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About Us

We are Astrid and Erik, a couple who love living in East Yorkshire, Northern England. In the years we have been together we have shared a passion for food adventures. From simple home-spun recipes and the street food of obscure destinations to the haute cuisine of Michelin-starred dining. In this blog we want to share those adventures. We hope you will join usand share our enjoyment.